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South Wales" and the date " 1813" should pass current as 

 and be a legal tender for the sum of five shillings sterling. 

 The popular names given respectively to these coins by the 

 colonists were " Dump " and " Holy Dollar." 



At this date the sterling value of the Spanish dollar in its 

 original state was 5^. the punching process thus raised its 

 sterling value by 25 per cent. 



The proclamation also contained very stringent regulations 

 against forging, imitating, or uttering fraudulent imitations 

 of either of these coins, and prohibited their exportation from 

 the colony. 



There are several die varieties of both coins in existence, 

 but whether some of these are imitations made from good 

 dollars by persons who wished to appropriate the extra 25 per 

 cent, to their own use, or not, I am unable to say. 



In August and November, 1822, Governor Brisbane gave 

 notice that after six weeks the Holy Dollar and Dump 

 would respectively be reduced to the sterling value of three- 

 fourths and one-fourth of the Spanish dollar. 



From that date until September, 1842, the currency 

 consisted of all the coins before mentioned, together with 

 dollars of the United States, Mexico, and various South 

 American States, French five franc pieces, and other 

 miscellaneous coins. From the 1st October, 1842, foreign 

 coin ceased by statute to have any status as a legal tender in 

 the colonies. I must go back to 1823 to describe a silver 

 shilling token which was issued in Tasmania by Messrs. 

 M'Intosh and Degraves, sawmill proprietors. Little appears 

 to be known about the circumstances attending the issue of 

 this coin, which is excessively rare. It was probably only 

 a pattern, or at most issued for a limited period, for no 

 contemporary reference to it can be found in the local news- 

 papers. It is perhaps worthy of remark that the reverse is 

 impressed with the figure of a kangaroo surmounted by the 

 name " Tasmania." This is the more remarkable from the 

 fact that the name of the colony was not ofiicially changed 

 from " Van Diemen's Land" until 1855, 32 years afterwards. 

 The discovery of gold in Victoria, and the consequent 

 influx of large quantities of gold dust into South Australia, 

 forced upon the government of that colony the necessity of 

 making some provision for giving that gold a convertible 

 value. An influentially signed memorial was presented to 

 the Government by the merchants of Adelaide in January, 

 1 852, and in consequence thereof the Bullion Act (No. 1 of 



